Other scientists can only build on our work to the extent that they know about it. That’s why we keep track of the occasions on which the London Institute and its research papers are written about in the mainstream and science press or mentioned in major blogs and podcasts.

  • The Critic

    Creativity10 Dec

    The art of science

    On the day of the Nobel awards, our writer Thomas Hodgkinson writes in The Critic about the common ground between the arts and the sciences.

  • The Telegraph

    Philanthropy7 Dec

    The art of the Delo

    Our trustee Ben Delo talks to The Sunday Telegraph’s James Titcomb about his journey from bitcoin billionaire to free speech philanthropist.

  • Financial Times

    Artificial Intelligence16 Oct

    Bubble trouble

    In his Financial Times column on the AI boom, John Thornhill quotes our live interview with physicist and entrepreneur Stephen Wolfram.

  • Nature India

    Partnership12 Oct

    A bridge with India

    Nature India’s editor hails our Ramanujan Junior Researchers scheme, inspired by the friendship between Srinivasa Ramanujan and G.H. Hardy.

  • Science history29 Sep

    Faraday’s masterclass

    In The Oldie, our writer Thomas Hodgkinson celebrates the Royal Institution’s Friday Evening Discourses, the world’s oldest science talks.

  • Idler

    Science history18 Sep

    Friday night live

    In the Idler, our writer Thomas Hodgkinson pays tribute to the Royal Institution’s Friday Evening Discourses, which turn 200 this year.

  • Financial Times

    Artificial Intelligence11 Jun

    A Fields Medal for AI?

    The Financial Times features Prof. Yang-Hui He in a piece highlighting the potential impact of future AI models on academic mathematicians.

  • Perspective Magazine

    Philanthropy8 Jun

    Rebel with a cause

    Ben Delo talks to Thomas Hodgkinson in Perspective about beating Asperger’s, smoking the competition and why he likes the London Institute.

  • AI-assisted maths21 May

    Talking murmurations

    Prof. Yang-Hui He discusses AI breakthroughs in mathematics with podcaster Curt Jaimungal–including his work on the murmuration conjecture.

  • The Spectator

    Science funding3 Apr

    My passion for maths

    In a piece in The Spectator, the entrepreneur and philanthropist Ben Delo explains why he is funding a Fellowship at the London Institute.

  • AI-assisted maths2 Jan

    The AI mathematician

    On the Theories of Everything podcast, Prof. Yang-Hui He explains how machine learning is helping to revolutionise mathematical discovery.

  • The Times

    Russia & Ukraine1 Nov 2024

    Re-ordering Russia

    Mikhail Khodorkovsky talks to Thomas Hodgkinson in The Times about the future of Russia and why he funds research at the London Institute.

  • HBR

    Org intelligence 29 Aug 2024

    Spreading the word

    In the Harvard Business Review, our trustee Martin Reeves and co-authors explain how ‘evolvable scripts’ greatly improve knowledge-sharing.

  • The Times

    Science funding15 Aug 2024

    Life of Riley

    The Times' science editor interviews our Trustee, actress Talulah Riley, about her love of physics and her work with the London Institute.

  • The Spectator

    Creativity13 Apr 2024

    Talking is thinking

    Talking engages robust muscles of thought—not least when mathematicians take their problems to the blackboard, argues Thomas Hodgkinson.

  • Nature

    Materials21 Mar 2024

    Roll over, Newton

    A team of researchers has designed a robotic metamaterial that can create topological solitons, violating Newton’s third law of motion.

  • Materials20 Mar 2024

    Making waves

    A team including Oleksandr Gamayun has made the first mechanical metamaterial that transmits topological solitons in just one direction.

  • Mood podcast

    Creativity18 Mar 2024

    Creative convergence

    The advertising guru Graham Fink waxes lyrical about equations and working with the London Institute on the How Do You Feel Today? podcast.

  • Quanta

    Number theory5 Mar 2024

    Elliptic curve mystery

    Quanta reports on work by Yang-Hui He, who co-discovered unexpected patterns in a property related to the curves’ integer roots using AI.

  • Ri

    Geometry29 Feb 2024

    Geometry’s dominion

    Following his popular Discourse, Yang-Hui He joins writer Madeleine Hall to talk about the mysteries of geometry on the Ri Science podcast.

  • Bloomberg

    Russia & Ukraine20 Feb 2024

    Security and freedom

    A Bloomberg piece names our Arnold & Landau Fellowships as one of the few programmes offering help to Russian and Ukrainian scientists.

  • interview

    Russia & Ukraine22 May 2023

    The language of maths

    A piece in The Times explains how, thanks to our Arnold and Landau Fellowships, theorists divided by war can find a common denominator.

  • The spectator

    Science history4 Apr 2023

    What are the chances?

    In The Spectator, our writer Madeleine Hall hails John Venn, who pioneered not only Venn diagrams but also frequentist probability.

  • Nautilus

    Science history14 Mar 2023

    The big bang

    A century ago, in our rooms in Mayfair, Sir James Dewar died. Our writer Thomas Hodgkinson pays tribute to the inventor of cordite in Nautilus.

  • The telegraph

    Evolvability11 Aug 2022

    Price of immortality

    In The Sunday Telegraph, our writer Thomas Hodgkinson highlights London Institute research suggesting ageing may be adaptive—and reversible.

  • New Scientist

    AI-assisted maths6 Jun 2022

    AI helps with maths

    An AI that can turn mathematics problems written in English into a formal proving language could make them easier for other AIs to solve.

  • The Washington Post

    Evolvability1 May 2022

    Death, be not proud

    The Washington Post explains how man's mad search for immortality is getting serious in our cell programming collaboration with bit.bio.

  • the times

    Physics & maths12 Jun 2021

    Challenging Times

    In The Times, the paper's science editor Tom Whipple reports on the London Institute's list of the 23 Mathematical Challenges for our time.

  • THE SPECTATOR

    Physics & maths17 Dec 2020

    A singular mind

    In an interview with Thomas Fink, Sir Roger Penrose talks about his Nobel Prize, the beauty of physics—and why AI is nothing to fear.

  • FORBES

    Cell coding13 Nov 2020

    LIMS-bit.bio

    Forbes explains how the London Institute, working with the biologists at bit.bio, may revolutionise our understanding of human life.

  • the times

    Cell coding27 Oct 2020

    LIMS-bit.bio

    The Times welcomes the collaboration between London Institute mathematicians and the biologists at bit.bio to crack cell reprogramming.

  • Verdict

    Cell coding22 Oct 2020

    Maths, meet biology

    Verdict reports on the collaboration between the London Institute and cell coding company bit.bio to decode the operating system of life.

  • Harvard Business Review

    Innovation24 Feb 2020

    Taming complexity

    Complexity may be hard to unpick, without being inherently bad. Ensure the benefits of any addition to company systems outweigh its costs.

  • Science|Business

    Science funding30 Jan 2020

    Taking back research

    In today’s Science|Business, the London Institute welcomes the prospect of a UK DARPA and calls for shorter turn-around times for funding.

  • High Life

    Physics & maths1 Apr 2019

    Sage of discovery

    British Airways’ inflight magazine runs a three-page profile of the London Institute, its founder and its new approach to doing science.

  • APS Physics

    Thermodynamics31 Jul 2018

    Slurry in a hurry

    The 3D structures of slurries—fluids full of solid particles—can be swiftly measured using a single 2D shot and electron diffraction data.

  • Nature Physics

    Innovation25 Sep 2017

    Yes you cayenne

    In innovation, the most apparently niche ingredients may turn out to be the most useful, as the structures of recipes become more complex.

  • Phys.org

    Financial risk5 Apr 2017

    Fools rush in

    Measures meant to stabilise economies may have the opposite effect, creating cyclical structures in the networks of contracts between banks.

  • Scientific American

    Innovation6 Jan 2017

    Harnessing Serendipity

    Quirky and apparently mysterious, innovation is critical to sustained economic growth—and mathematics can help us understand how it works.

  • Nature World News

    Network theory4 Oct 2014

    Beauty in repairability

    The hunt for networks that best combine efficiency with repairability, to avoid breakdown, leads to structural designs that resemble snowflakes.

  • Discoveries

    Network theory3 Oct 2014

    Snowflakes don't break

    Snowflake-shaped networks, with redundant arms that come into use when main branches break down, are easiest to fix when disaster strikes.

  • Discoveries

    Fractals20 Feb 2013

    Towers of strength

    The Eiffel tower is now a longstanding example of hierarchical design due to its non-trivial internal structure spanning many length scales.